India, July 29 -- Mother Teresa had once said, "If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive." Like her, many saints, gurus and spiritual teachers have often believed that if someone misbehaves with you, talks ill about you or indulges in mud-slinging about your character, you should forgive the person and forget about his misdemeanour. They further advise that one should react to such negativity with friendly behaviour and think of working on the self instead of retaliating against such people.

But here, the question that most of us would naturally raise is that if we forgive such evil-doers' maligning acts, will it not allow them more space to abuse? Will we not be letting many mad bulls or elephants run amok and create havo...